Compelling Coming-of-Age-Memoirs: Taking Flight
From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
In this memoir, ballet dancer Michaela DePrince recounts her difficult childhood in Sierra Leone, her adoption by an American family, and her success as a ballerina.
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